198 TUE BOY CRUSADERS,

Already, while the sultan held his interview with the
King of France and the Counts of Poictiers and
Anjou, everything was prepared; and soon after
Touran Chah had left Louis and his brothers shut
up in the pavilion, they were roused by loud shouts
of distress and a mighty tumult; and, while they
breathlessly asked each other whether the French
captives were being massacred or Damietta taken by
storm, in rushed twenty Saracens, their swords red
and reeking with blood, and spots of blood on their
vestments and their faces, stamping, threatening
furiously, and uttering fierce cries,